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From the perky girl next door in the 1950s to the woman next door in 1960s sex comedies, Ms. Day was the most popular film actress since Shirley Temple.

Doris Day, actress and singer who was America’s top box-office star in the early 1960s, has died.

From the perky girl next door in the 1950s to the woman next door in 1960s sex comedies, Ms. Day was the most popular film actress since Shirley Temple.

She was a summer intern at the A.C.L.U.’s Women’s Rights Project and returned as its director, giving her the life “I was dreaming of living.”

Mr. Rubalcaba, a chemist by training, was a leader of Spain’s Socialist Party and led the effort to dismantle ETA, the violent Basque separatist group.

An authority on bioethics at New York University for decades, Dr. Zitrin sought to discipline physicians who assisted in executions by lethal injection.

Two decades after starring in “The Mod Squad,” winning a Golden Globe for her role, Ms. Lipton recaptured viewers’ attention in “Twin Peaks.”

At a 2017 ceremony meant to honor code talkers including Mr. Begaye, President Trump angered many by mocking Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”

He won an Oscar for his gripping portrayal of breakdowns lurking under the surface of an affluent family in Robert Redford’s 1980 film “Ordinary People,” and for 1977’s “Julia.”

After a successful dance career in the Soviet Union, he turned up at the School of American Ballet looking for work. He taught there for more than 40 years.